Re: Charset encoding brokenness

[Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>]

deskpot@despammed.com (Vasily Korytov) writes:

> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 04:01:22 +0100, Jesper Harder wrote:
>
>> I think `mime-to-mml' is the wrong thing for most purposes for a
>> variety of reasons:
>>
>> 1. When I ask someone to forward a message, I usually want a
>> _verbatim_ copy, not an interpretation by Gnus.
>
> Hm. Then we really should have different options to have both
> interpretation and verbatim plaintext forwards.

We already have that ... the problem is that verbatim forward is
currently broken.

> In fact, the interpretation is much more often desired. What the use do
> I have of base64 undecoded?

If you just want to read the message, then it doesn't matter if it's
base64 encoded -- Gnus decodes it automatically, so you won't even
notice unless you view the raw message.

> And if that wasn't me -- but some poor Outlook or even fido users?

Outlook has no problem with viewing base64.  I don't know about Fido,
but I'd consider any client which doesn't do base64 to be extremely
obsolete.